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N0. 354,583. Patented 1360.21.1886.

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HAIR OR OTHER BRUSH.

Partented' Dec. 21, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMEs RAPER, MAsoN'rE'AEsoN, AND FREDERICK GILL, OF ROYAL vIoToE PLACE,OLD FORD ROAD, COUNTY or MIDDLESEX, ENGLAND.

HAIR on OTHER BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 354,583, dated December21, 1886.

Application filed July 14, 1886. Serial No. 207,991. (No model.)Patented in Belgium March 26, 1886, No. 72,517.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, JAMES RAPER, MAsoNPEARSON, and FREDERIOI; GILL, all of the firm of RAPER, PEARSON & GILL,of Royal Victor Place, Old Ford Road, in the county of Middlesex,England, brush-makers, subjects of the' Queen of Great Britain,haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair and otherBrushes, (for which we have received Letters Patent in Belgium, No.72,517, dated March 26, 1886,) of which the following is aspecification. We make our improved brushes of bristles of a stiffnature, isolated or placed singly and separately, each bristle or end ofa bristle ina hole in an india-rubber pad or sheet, strengthened, ifdesired, by cementing thereto a backing or layer of a textile fabric orstrengthening-sheet, the retention of these single bristles thereinbeing secured by the application of any suitable indie-rubber or suchlike cement or composition-such as are well known to manufacturers ofwaterproof rubber clothing-applied on the back or hidden side of theindiarubber and sheet of fabric, and further adding a covering over allof cemented fabric, if desired, but the relative arrangement of thelayers of rubber, or rubber-combined fabric, and sheet of textilefabric, covering the stumps or ends of the bristles, may be varied, andwhich cement will serve to cover the inner or root ends, holding,andlocking each bristle in its proper situatio'fi' in the brush.

Figure 1 shows a side view of such a brush,

\ a part of the back or roof being shown'in section, the bristles, withtheir dome or arched support, being seen exteriorly, and the bristlesbeing seen as rising tier above tier on such support; Fig. 2, a frontview. Fig. 3 shows a front view of the brush-back partly in section, tobetter indicate the under-cutting of the recess for the india-rubbersheet holding the bristles. Fig. 4 is a section of the brushback on theline a; a: of Fig. 3. Figs. 5 and (i show, respectively, front and backviews of the pad or sheet for the bristles to be held. One-half of thepad in each view is supposed to be filled with bristles of thehalf-staple kind and the other half ready to receive-them. Figs. 7 and8, respectively, show a section and an end view of a pad filled withbristles. Fig. 9

is a single bristle, or half-staple bristle, separately, the dottedlines indicating the position of a pad; and Fig. 10 is a like view of abristle, staple or Ushaped, adapted for each end to protrude through aseparate hole in the pad and to be held by the middle part of thebristle being locked into the fabric of the pad. The applied bristles inthe elastic pad may be either L or U shaped. 6

a is the india-rubber or elastic pad or sheet, of bellied or domedcontour, the edges a of which are pressed into the undercut grooves clof the recess of the front of the brush-back (l, leaving a vacant spacebetween the inner side of back d and the in nersurface of the dome orbellied elastic pad a, in which air is retained or may be drawn in andforced out through the drift d under the influence of pressure on thebristles.

I) are the bristles, theinner ends, I), of which next the brush-back (ifhalf-bristles) are generally folded down onto the inner side of the pad,so as to give the cement a better retentive hold to secure them to thesheet a, while, when 7 5 of staple form, the part b, behind the padserves as a secure lock. (See Fig. 10.)

c is the textile lining to the pad a.

d is the brush-back; d, the undercut retaining-wall of brusl1-back;d,the brush-handle; d, a small drift or hole for passage of air to andfrom the chamber formed under the pad, and between it and thebrush-back.

The pad or sheet of rubber a, with its series of isolated singlebristles or ends of bristles b, 8 5 is somewhat, more or less,compressed or secured and fastened into a recess, d, formedin the frontof a brush-back, d; or the pad maybe otherwise secured to the front ofthe brush, and either with or without a suitable handle, 0 d to thebrush, provided that in the placing of the rubber pad or sheet a in therecess (2 in the brush-back d an arching or doming is secured to it,which imparts a springiness to the bristles, and by its roundness orcurvature is at- 5 tended with great enhancement of the elegance ofappearance imparted to the finished brush.

In place of indie-rubber, othersuitableelastic soft pliant material maybe employed for the elastic sheet, whereinto'the separate L or U shapedbristles are to be entered and secured.

Among the advantages resulting from our improvements are the greaterelasticity from the combined pliancy of the bristles and rubber sheet,which replaces the rigid board of the usual constructions, particularlyin brushes 5 for the hair and other toilet uses, as well as for otherbrushes.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our saidinvention and in What manner the same is to be performed, we declarethat what we claim in brushes for the hair, 850., is

1. In a brush, the described combination of 2. In a hair-brush, thecombination of an elastic domed or arched bristle-supporting sheet, aback to which such sheet is secured, and affording an air-chamberbetween them, the back having therein a passage, d through which, underthe pressure on the bristles, air may be forced out of such chamber,substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we, the said JAMES RAPER, M soN PEARSON, andFREDERICK GILL, have hereunto set our hands this 30th day of June, 1886.

JAMES RAPER. MASON PEARSON. FREDERICK GILL, In presence cl- ALFRED BELL,ALFRED BURBRIDGE.

